FALLING SKIES - PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: Noah Wyle's back, fighting alien invaders
by Ellen Gray
June 15, 2011
FALLING SKIES premieres 9 p.m. Sunday, June 19, 2011 on TNT.
Moves to 10 p.m. June 26.
WHEN STEVEN Spielberg's aliens launch their latest attack on Earth Sunday in TNT's "Falling Skies," Noah Wyle will be there to meet them.
Not as John Carter, the fresh-faced young medical student we first saw 17 years ago in "ER," but as Tom Mason, a widowed history professor who finds himself second in command of the 2nd Massachusetts, fighting the invaders and struggling to recover his captured middle son.
Time flies when you're on TV, but for Wyle, two days shy of his 40th birthday when he visited Philadelphia earlier this month, it might feel like warp speed...
Photo courtesy of TNT
... He's also given a little thought to Hollywood's fascination with alien invasion.
"Whenever you introduce an exterior threat to the planet, it's really the only chance you have to unify all the humans on the planet, let them transcend prejudices and petty differences."
Plus, there's "this idea of the reset button being hit on civilization," he said. "The Gospels, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution - whatever the template for the new civilization's going to be, these guys are going to be the ones framing it," he said. "So what do you keep and what do you discard? What was good and what was bad? I thought it was a really interesting theme."
And though the enemy one character calls "cooties" might look familiar, Wyle promises surprises. At one point, "we as characters have to radically redefine our assumptions about what's been happening all along because we misread it completely. And it's pretty cool."
Falling Skies premieres Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 9/8C. Cast includes Stargate SG-1's Colin Cunningham, Maxim Knight, Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Mpho Koaho, Sarah Carter, Connor Jessup, Bruce Gray, Dale Dye, Drew Roy, Seychelle Gabriel, Peter Shinkoda, Dylan Authors and James Collins.
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